Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

The riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

We pray, according to this, in Galatians 2.20, that as followers of Jesus, we've been crucified

with Christ. We no longer live that Christ lives in us. Just that reality, Christ in you today,

if you are a follower of Jesus, he's not outside of you. He is in you. His spirit is dwelling inside

you. The life of Christ is in you. You are united with Christ. And so then in verse 28,

following on this declaration that Christ is in you, this glorious mystery, Paul says, so we proclaim

Christ because he's in us. So we share him with others. We tell about him to others so that we

may present others mature in Christ. So we can help them experience the life of Christ. And then

he says in verse 29, for this I toil, I work, I work hard, struggling with all his energy

that he powerfully works within me. And as you hear that voice, I just want to encourage you

today for all who are in Christ and Christ is in you. That means his energy, his strength, his power

is at work within you. And I say this because I know, well, if if you're like me, you feel pretty

weak in a variety of ways. When it comes to all that God has called you to do, I think about my

own life, to be the man God is calling me to be the husband God is calling me to be the dad God

is calling me to be the pastor, whatever vocation you have to do this vocation and the way God calls

us to to make disciples of the nations to be holy, to flee idolatry and immorality to resist

temptation to walk with him to work for others good to love others as ourselves. And I'm just

getting started all the different things God's called us to do. I can't do any of those things

apart from his power at work within me. And neither can you. And the good news of Colossians 129

is you don't have to that this life and even the struggles the way Paul uses this word in

toil that sometimes you feel in this life that is exhausting and overwhelming ultimately points us

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